With a war in Afghanistan and worries over the rise of new superpowers in China and India, Asia seems like a relatively recent U.S. foreign-policy bugaboo. But since World War II, the United States has devoted more and more of its diplomatic and military efforts across the Pacific. The Cold War was fought on Asian soil, economic strategy was designed with Asian tigers in mind, and diplomacy has focused on containing and befriending the inhabitants of the world's biggest continent. The following photographs depict this complicated, contentious, and often lucrative history of a superpower and its Asian allies and foes.
U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur meets with Japanese Emperor Hirohito in Manila, Philippines, in October* 1945, a few weeks after Japan's surrender following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan surrendered to Allied forces on Sept. 2, 1945, officially ending World War II.
*Correction, Oct. 12, 2011: The date was corrected from the originally incorrect Sept. 2, 1945.
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MANEESH
1:38 PM ET
October 11, 2011
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FP2011
1:52 AM ET
October 27, 2011
China the next superpower? You might be right...
I think you are right on that one Maneesh, we created and build up China. We all the loans we have with them, they pretty much own us.
It is hard to see all those years of destruction around Asia. We have been part on every war. Wars that we can argue, did we really gain anything out of them?
We did not even learn from the insanity of war, we just went ahead with more wars, just in other places.
FP2011
4:30 PM ET
November 2, 2011
Are Going To Learn?
I just came back to this article thinking, we do like war. I am talking about for centuries war after war.
I wonder if we can all be trained on how to approach things in a peaceful matter.
Maybe training on negotiation should be taught more often on grad school and schools in general.
If we can only learn to discuss things without resorting to war, wouldn't we all be in a better place?
DELPIA
5:11 AM ET
November 10, 2011
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MACCY
2:34 PM ET
October 11, 2011
Excellent Information Read
I wondered how a world's no1 country is in critical position at present.Unemployment occurring rapidly and people becoming poor.But happy in the end with growth of India.I hope everything will be fine soon.
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TAKUO KOBAYASHI
6:21 PM ET
October 11, 2011
About the first picture (Emperor Hirohito and Gen. MacArthur)
I believe it was taken in Tokyo on Sep.27.
Soon after WW II, it was so difficult for the Emperor to go abroad.
P.J. AROON
6:34 PM ET
October 12, 2011
October 1945
The photo was taken in October 1945. (Getty Images didn't have the exact date.) I've corrected the error. Thanks for pointing it out.
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/53317099/AFP
--FP copy chief
AHADLEY
12:35 AM ET
October 14, 2011
Taken in Tokyo
According to Wikipedia this photo was take 27 SEP 1945, by a US Navy photgrapher (Lt. Gaetano Faillace) at their first meeting, at the U.S. Embassy, Tokyo. < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macarthur_hirohito.jpg > If you look closely at the Getty photo it is obviously a crop of the original Navy photo.
It makes no sense to think that either the Emperor or MacArthur would leave Japan in SEP 1945.
ORWELL
7:11 AM ET
October 23, 2011
The Meeting in not in Manila
The Emeror met the General in Tokyo. Not in Manila.
It should immediately be corrected.
ORWELL
7:20 AM ET
October 23, 2011
Atrocity in Nagasaki and Hiroshima
There is almost no hate against Americans in Japan. But Americans should utter someday a word of apology of killing instantly such number of human beings involving innocent citizens massacre even if it is the reality and brutality of war. The atomic bombings also shoud have been refered to the Tokyo Court of War Criminals?
PARETO
5:42 PM ET
November 2, 2011
But why?
Why does the US seem to mess with the political instabilities in other countries. Like a big bully the US can be sometimes, who ever elected the US to be the worlds enforcer of law. Doesn't the US have enough political problems of its own to exhaust their resources on troubles abroad lasik cost
YARINSIZ
4:59 AM ET
November 7, 2011
think you are right on that
think you are right on that one Maneesh, we created and build up China. We all the loans we have with them, seslichat they pretty much own us. We did not even learn from the insanity of war, we just went ahead with more wars, just in other places.
STEEL
8:11 AM ET
November 8, 2011
photo 7
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